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3D Printer Creates Museum Treasures For Home - 21 Jun 2013
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Life-size 3D printed adaptation of the British Museum's Head of a horse of Selene from the Parthenon Elgin Marbles collection
3D Printing: Michelangelo's For The Masses
3D Printing: Michelangelo's For The Masses
Rodkin's The Kiss in your kitchen or Michelangelo's David in the dining room, it's now possible to download 3D printable designs of museum masterpieces.
Eventually the entire world's cultural heritage of sculptural masterworks will be made available to the public by scanning and publishing their 3D printable files into the digital commons.
In a pioneering 3D printing project entitled, "Through A Scanner, Skulpturhalle", Cosmo Wenman will 3D scan images taken of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, including the Venus de Milo and Medusa Rondanini, and make the 3D digital files accessible to all.
Wenman has been granted copyright permission by The Skulpturhalle Basel museum in Switzerland to take photographs of their 2,000 high-quality plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures.
He said: "There are millennia of beautiful physical forms that can be digitized, propagated, and remixed over and over again in perpetuity, starting now.
"They can become the foundation of an unlimited combinatorial explosion of adaptation and creation, and for untold new artwork and art forms in the coming years."
Although the project is still in the fundraising stage through a Kickstarter campaign, which launched on June 6, Wenman, who is based in California, has already begun processing previously unpublished scans he has taken at other museums.
This includes the British Museum's famous colossal bust of Ramesses II which will be released onto Marketbot's Thinkingiverse 3D printing website at no cost and copyright free.
As well as creating a life-size 3D printed adaptation of the British Museum's Head ...
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Celebrity and movie carved pumpkins, America - 11 Oct 2011
Manadatory Credit: Photo by Alex Wer/Solent News / Rex Features (1469972h)
Picture Perfect Pumpkins
An artist who carves amazingly intricate versions of famous faces into pumpkins has unveiled his latest creations in time for Halloween.
Alex Wer spends up to six hours on his stunning carvings which include characters from blockbuster movies Harry Potter, The Lord of The Rings and Spiderman.
This year the 44-year-old has even made a special tribute piece to the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, with the caption 'iChangedTheWorld'.
The instantly recognisable faces of popular cartoon characters Woody and Buzz Lightyear also light up the extraordinary collection.
The 44-year-old mortgage broker, known as The Pumpkin Geek, sells his pumpkins for around GBP 50each on his website thepumpkingeek.com.
He said: "I've always loved carving, and a few years ago my wife asked me to carve her company logo into a pumpkin for a work do.
"At the work do the piece was a huge hit and I got thirty-five orders that night and never looked back."
Alex from, Sacramento in California, uses artificial pumpkins so that they last forever.
He painstakingly removes the layers in four stages to create different areas of light and shade.
The finished product is then illuminated with a 30 watt bulb, instead of the traditional candle, to reveal the sculpture in all its glory.
Star Wars' Yoda, Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper are just a few of the film characters in Alex's expansive collection.
Other famous faces include David Tennant, Oprah Winfrey and Hugh Laurie.
His pieces have gained him a celebrity following - Gene Simmons from KISS and Kate Beckinsale are both fans of his work.
Even Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore - currently making the news with their alleged marriage difficulties - have been recreated with incredible accuracy.
He added: "Carving has not just b...
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